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This story is a G1 version of my SOTM story with themes from it as well.
"Gestalte bond"
"Speaking"
'Thought'
6.
"Okay White, I'll admit that you are a much crazier driver than I am." Wildrider admitted as they stopped just behind Drag Strip. "It was awesome!"
"We're in the desert, now how do we find this thing?" Drag Strip demanded as he transformed back into robot mode.
Rad got out of Wilderider's passenger seat and the Ferrari did the same. Rad looked around and saw that it wasn't nearly as windy as it could be. He kneeled down and pressed a hand down into the sand, closing his eyes. He concentrated very hard on feeling any vibrations and sensing any new enrgy. His eyes snapped open and he ran off. "This way!"
Both Stunticons looked at each other before running after the blond teenager. They found him looking around suspiciously and he took that charm off its string, making it transform into that cool-looking bow.
"Why the slag did you take off?" Drag Strip demanded.
"It's here." Rad replied.
"What is?" Wildrider asked looking around.
"Our first task: The skin of the Amphisbaena." Rad said and upon seeing their blank looks, he knew it was time for a history lesson. "It is also called the Mother of Ants. She was born from the blood that fell from the Gorgon Medusa's head as the hero Perseus flew over the Libyan desert with it in his hand." he explained.
"What the slag is a Gorgon?" Drag Strip again demanded. "And who the frag is Perseus?"
Rad pinched the bridge of his nose with his free hand. "I'll explain later. Right now though we have to get her skin." his free hand reached for his pack and he touched a silver arrow pin on it, the pin turning into a quiver of bronze-tipped steel arrow, with a few completely bronze arrows as well.
"Cool!" Wildrider exclaimed in genuine awe.
"You can admire the squish-er, White's stuff later!" Drag Strip snapped, though even he admitted that the transforming pin was cool.
Rad fluidly pulled an arrow from the quiver and knotched it to his bow. "Look alive mechs, she got two heads and is filled with venom." he warned and almost sounded cheery. He must have been really bored.
Drag Strip scoffed. "I'm made of metal, what could she do to me?"
Rad glared at him. "Do you really want to risk it? We're out in the freaking desert with no others to get help from other than the three of us." he assumed his comment must have gotten to Drag Strip because the yellow mech didn't argue as both Stunticons pulled out their guns.
"Hey Rad, you said this things got two heads, didn't you?" Wildrider asked.
"That's what I've been saying all day." Rad said with slight aggravation.
"Is it also big and got chicken feet and glowing fleshy optics?"
"Yes."
"I think I found it."
Rad turned around only to come face to face with a snarling serpentine, scaly face and glowing candle-lit eyes. He jumped back and out of the way as it snapped it's mouth at where he had been. 'I shouldn't have let myself get distracted.' he berated himself. "Shoot!"
"I don't take orders from you, White!" Drag Strip retorted but began shhoting at one of the heads as it snapped it's jaws at him.
The Amphisbaena roared in pain before diving into the sand. "Where'd it go?" Wildrider asked looking around.
Rad also looked around cautiously. "It went underground." he closed his eyes for a moment and searched for the energy the creature emitted. "Behind us!" he yelled and whirled around, the mechs doing the same, and fired as the Amphisbaena resurfaced.
She growled in pain before going under again. This time though she didn't resurface.
Rad looked around once before seeing the scaly skin just under the sand. He changed his bow and quiver back to their charm and pin forms before picking up the skin. Once he folded it into a manageably smaller package, he put it into his pack and looked up at Drag Strip. "Skin of the double-ended desert dweller: check."